Every Cillian Murphy Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Ken Loach's heartbreakingly vital exploration of the Irish Revolution and subsequent Civil War, The Wind That Shakes the Barely stars Murphy as Damien O'Donovan, an IRA soldier whose fight for a brighter future leads him face-to-face with the cruelty of war, occupation and lost love. 

Fierce in his beliefs and brave, Murphy has rarely vanished more into a character than he does with Damien, whose rise from cynical youth to rebel leader is a journey scattered with heartbreak and insurmountable odds he refuses to compromise himself for. 

Grounding Loach's characteristically bleak tale of human strife with a performance rooted in a deep, personal humanity, Murphy leaves nothing unsaid, right until the defiant end. It's so great, in fact, that it would be his greatest performance, were it not for one other film...